Word: 1990s
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...punch cards introduce their own problems. Holes that are incompletely punctured by the voter can baffle the counting machines. Those problems led Wisconsin to ban the cards in the 1990s, just as New Hampshire had done in 1986. In 1988, a report by the National Bureau of Standards, a federal agency, recommended that punch cards be abandoned everywhere. William Gardner, the New Hampshire secretary of state, recalls a test run in which just five cards were put through a counting machine three times--and produced three different counts. "It was not the most comforting feeling when...
...instance, Meltzer says, the last long-term plan, completed in 1989, included a goal of increasing the faculty from 64 to 74 total members. This goal was actually exceeded; the faculty grew from 64 to 79 in the 1990s...
...Tech, MIT's student newspaper, wrote in April of this year that the school's suicide rate was well below the national average for the 1990s...
Second, he'll always be hostage to the impeachment crisis, like having a scarlet I embroidered on his chest. Clinton may look better to historians when they take a bigger look at the boom time of the 1990s, perhaps the best time to be alive in America ever. He did an excellent job as President; he knew how to prioritize the most important issues of his time, America's debt and the need for balanced budgets. His foreign-policy record is underappreciated. He turned America from a cold war mentality to a globalization mentality. But no matter how well...
...stock price subsided in April, though Premji's net worth is still estimated at more than $11 billion.) The techno-tycoons are admired because they have earned fortunes in one of the world's most competitive industries without any under-the-counter help from Indian bureaucrats. In the early 1990s, in fact, the software lobby got the government to remove import duties intended to protect local firms from software products sold in India by Western companies. "We said that if we can't compete with multinationals in India, how will we ever be able to compete outside," says NASSCOM...